I have maintained a regular meditation practice for over 10 years and have been working with students interested mindfulness meditation and meditative practices the past four years. My shift to mindfulness meditation practice comes out of experiences as a nurse in the critical care arena, and then in private practice as a psychologist; the need for mindfulness practice through hard times was evident. It was much later in my journey that I began to ask how mindfulness meditation might benefit us in good times, positively impact our immune system and strengthen that sense of well-being. I was curious-strong and looked for mindfulness meditative training and education from programs well established in science and evidence based practice.
• Mindful Awareness Research Center and Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA, TMF class of 2019. Trainer/Mindfulness Facilitation. (Upon completion I hold Certified-Professional status with I.M.T.A. – International Mindfulness Teacher’s Association)
• Compass Training, Unified Mindfulness Certified U.M. Teacher/Trainer in 2022
I have also completed training and course work in these areas:
• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, MBSR (2018)
• Teacher Trainer-Mindful Awareness Practices for Daily Living MAPS 1, evidence-based (2020)
• Mindful-Self Compassion, M-SC (2022)
• The Complete Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Training: a Two Part Comprehensive Training for Mindfulness Providers-David Treleaven (2022-2023)
Daily mindfulness practice has had a powerful impact on my life on a personal level; it is the ‘why.’… behind all the facilitation/coaching/training I offer at this phase of my career. I came to it though hardship in 2014, unable to sleep, struggling with profound loss and emotional pain. Through meditative practice, I was able reach a deeper understanding of how letting go, grasping and numbing speeds up or slows down healing. I’m curious how mindfulness meditation can offer a sense of well-being independent of the conditions/upheaval that comes our way, the stuff we all experience in our daily lives; I look forward to our work together in your journey.
Julianna received her BA in psychology from Duke University. As founder, president, and head trainer of Unified Mindfulness, she is dedicated to disseminating Shinzen Young’s comprehensive mindfulness meditation system through the creation and presentation of educational programs and teacher-training certification programs.
Dr. Hunter serves as associate professor of practice and is the founding director of the Executive Mind Leadership Institute at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. He also serves as visiting professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, where he developed and co-teaches the Leading Mindfully executive education program..
Dr. Eisendrath serves as chief psychologist and president of the Institute for Dialogue Therapy, P.C., where, as a Jungian analyst, she offers psychotherapy with individuals and couples, psychoanalysis, supervision, and training.
Dr. Vago serves as the research director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and the director of the Contemplative Neuroscience and Integrative Medicine (CNIM) Laboratory at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Department of Psychiatry.
Stella is a psychologist, professor, and Zen practitioner. She became a formal student in 2008 in the Soto Zen tradition. She teaches courses in mindfulness based psychotherapies and the psychology of compassion at the Union Institute & University. She also co-facilitates a family program and young adult program at Shao Shan Temple, in Woodbury Vermont.
Dr. Creswell serves as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the director of the Health & Human Performance Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. McCormick currently serves as director of education at Unified Mindfulness. In 1975, he received a B.A. in psychology from the University of California Santa Cruz, where he was part of Dr. Elliot Aronson’s research team that examined cooperative approaches to reducing interracial conflict and academic performance problems in newly integrated school, and made Honors in Psychology, College Honors, and Thesis Honors.
UnifiedMindfulness.com is the official teacher training platform for Shinzen and the Unified Mindfulness System.
Created over 50 years of research and testing by Shinzen Young, Unified Mindfulness is a system of meditation that’s easily researchable by science, with clear terminology and rigorous precision around concepts and procedures.
The Unified Mindfulness system is a comprehensive, robust and refined support structure that any individual at any stage of meditation practice can rely on to go deeper in their insight and their ability to share it with others. It is also a secular form of meditation, which means it’s not religious in any way so anyone, of any faith, can do it.